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View article: It Works When It Works: Measuring the Direct and Indirect Effects of AI Labels on Political Images
It Works When It Works: Measuring the Direct and Indirect Effects of AI Labels on Political Images Open
Recent advancements in the availability and sophistication of generative artificial intelligence has been accompanied by widespread concerns regarding the ability for the public to navigate the digital information environment, especially d…
View article: How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in Ukraine
How Language Shapes Belief in Misinformation: A Study Among Multilinguals in Ukraine Open
Scholarship has identified key determinants of people’s belief in misinformation predominantly from English-language contexts. However, multilingual citizens often consume news media in multiple languages. We study how the language of cons…
View article: When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences
When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences Open
Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding …
View article: Labeling social media posts: does showing coders multimodal content produce better human annotation, and a better machine classifier?
Labeling social media posts: does showing coders multimodal content produce better human annotation, and a better machine classifier? Open
The increasing multimodality (e.g., images, videos, links) of social media data presents opportunities and challenges. But text-as-data methods continue to dominate as modes of classification, as multimodal social media data are costly to …
View article: Hot Tweets and Cold Posts: Variation in US Congresspeople's Ideological Presentation on Twitter and Facebook Over Time
Hot Tweets and Cold Posts: Variation in US Congresspeople's Ideological Presentation on Twitter and Facebook Over Time Open
This work presents a novel observational study of US congresspeople’s link-based news-sharing behaviors and ideological presentations across Facebook and Twitter. By analyzing the web domains these politicians share, we estimate their poli…
View article: The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election
The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram before the 2020 US Election Open
View article: The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State Open
View article: How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign? Open
We investigated the effects of Facebook's and Instagram's feed algorithms during the 2020 US election. We assigned a sample of consenting users to reverse-chronologically-ordered feeds instead of the default algorithms. Moving users out of…
View article: Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions
Reshares on social media amplify political news but do not detectably affect beliefs or opinions Open
We studied the effects of exposure to reshared content on Facebook during the 2020 US election by assigning a random set of consenting, US-based users to feeds that did not contain any reshares over a 3-month period. We find that removing …
View article: The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State
The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State Open
View article: The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram Before the 2020 US Election
The Effects of Political Advertising on Facebook and Instagram Before the 2020 US Election Open
View article: News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public
News Sharing on Social Media: Mapping the Ideology of News Media, Politicians, and the Mass Public Open
This article examines the information sharing behavior of U.S. politicians and the mass public by mapping the ideological sharing space of political news on social media. As data, we use the near-universal currency of online information ex…
View article: How reliance on Spanish-language social media predicts beliefs in false political narratives amongst Latinos
How reliance on Spanish-language social media predicts beliefs in false political narratives amongst Latinos Open
False political narratives are nearly inescapable on social media in the United States. They are a particularly acute problem for Latinos, and especially for those who rely on Spanish-language social media for news and information. Studies…
View article: The Trump Advantage in Policy Recall Among Voters
The Trump Advantage in Policy Recall Among Voters Open
Research in political science suggests campaigns have a minimal effect on voters’ attitudes and vote choice. We evaluate the effectiveness of the 2016 Trump and Clinton campaigns at informing voters by giving respondents an opportunity to …
View article: Reaching Across the Political Aisle: Overcoming Challenges in Using Social Media for Recruiting Politically Diverse Respondents
Reaching Across the Political Aisle: Overcoming Challenges in Using Social Media for Recruiting Politically Diverse Respondents Open
A challenge for public opinion surveys is achieving representativeness of respondents across demographic groups. We test the extent to which ideological alignment with a survey's sponsor shapes differential partisan response and users' cho…
View article: Measuring receptivity to misinformation at scale on a social media platform
Measuring receptivity to misinformation at scale on a social media platform Open
Measuring the impact of online misinformation is challenging. Traditional measures, such as user views or shares on social media, are incomplete because not everyone who is exposed to misinformation is equally likely to believe it. To addr…
View article: Implementation of Outpatient Automated Stewardship Information System (OASIS©) Audit and Feedback in Two Healthcare Systems
Implementation of Outpatient Automated Stewardship Information System (OASIS©) Audit and Feedback in Two Healthcare Systems Open
Background: Combating antibiotic resistance, exacerbated by widespread unnecessary outpatient antibiotic prescriptions, necessitates innovative stewardship solutions. Audit and feedback reports are effective but often resource heavy. We in…
View article: Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse
Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse Open
There is scant quantitative research describing Nextdoor, the world's largest and most important hyperlocal social media network. Due to its localized structure, Nextdoor data are notoriously difficult to collect and work with. We build mu…
View article: The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment
The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment Open
We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to deactivate their accounts for 6 wk before the 2020 U.S. elect…
View article: Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos
Estimating the Ideology of Political YouTube Videos Open
We present a method for estimating the ideology of political YouTube videos. The subfield of estimating ideology as a latent variable has often focused on traditional actors such as legislators, while more recent work has used social media…
View article: The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election
The Diffusion and Reach of (Mis)Information on Facebook during the U.S. 2020 Election Open
Social media creates the possibility for rapid, viral spread of content, but how many posts actually reach millions? And is misinformation special in how it propagates? We answer these questions by analyzing the virality of and exposure to…
View article: Implementation of Outpatient Automated Stewardship Information System (OASIS<sup>©</sup>) audit and feedback in 2 healthcare systems
Implementation of Outpatient Automated Stewardship Information System (OASIS<sup>©</sup>) audit and feedback in 2 healthcare systems Open
View article: Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity
Online searches to evaluate misinformation can increase its perceived veracity Open
View article: A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19
A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19 Open
View article: Testing the Effect of Information on Discerning the Veracity of News in Real Time
Testing the Effect of Information on Discerning the Veracity of News in Real Time Open
Despite broad adoption of digital media literacy interventions that provide online users with more information when consuming news, relatively little is known about the effect of this additional information on the discernment of news verac…
View article: Author Correction: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing
Author Correction: Like-minded sources on Facebook are prevalent but not polarizing Open
View article: Concept-Guided Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Pairwise Comparison Scoring of Texts with Large Language Models
Concept-Guided Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Pairwise Comparison Scoring of Texts with Large Language Models Open
Existing text scoring methods require a large corpus, struggle with short texts, or require hand-labeled data. We develop a text scoring framework that leverages generative large language models (LLMs) to (1) set texts against the backdrop…
View article: Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting
Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting Open
The question of how social media usage impacts societal polarization continues to generate great interest among both the research community and broader public. Nevertheless, there are still very few rigorous empirical studies of the causal…
View article: Guest Editor Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Becky Morton
Guest Editor Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Becky Morton Open
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View article: Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting
Replicating the effects of Facebook deactivation in an ethnically polarized setting Open
This repository contains the replication material for the paper "Replicating the effects of social media usage in an ethnically polarized setting" forthcoming in Research & Politics, authored by Nejla Asimovic, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua …